Artisan Venture Lab

Artisan Venture Lab, known as AVL, is a small consultancy set up by founders and executives who have started, grown and sold technology businesses. It provides part-time and interim technology and operations leadership to growth-stage and mid-market companies.

What Artisan Venture Lab offers

• Operational and digital transformation: replacing legacy platforms, simplifying architecture and improving software delivery and processes.
• Fractional and interim leadership: CTO and COO-level executives who lead key projects without a permanent hire.
• Technology and AI strategy: choosing where AI, data and modern platforms add value, and turning that into a roadmap.
• Embedded delivery: working inside the client's team, then leaving behind clearer processes and stronger teams.

Who it serves

Growth-stage and mid-market organisations that need to modernise their technology, adopt AI carefully and build operations that can scale.

Key facts

• Model: combined fractional CTO and COO leadership
• Earlier work: the firm previously described itself as working on e-commerce, software and cross-platform marketing for brands